Shia Islam and Judaism share a yearly day of mourning and fasting for a very tragic, sad, historical religious event that happened more than 13 centuries ago.

For the Shia it was the slaughter and the tragic martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Husayn, and most members of his family, who were massacred by their enemies in a battle in 680 CE.

Ancient Egyptians made records of major events in their history, yet they never mentioned anything about “Moses” or the “Exodus” because they always ignored times when they were defeated. A good example of this is the Merneptah Stele, erected in Egypt in 1208 BCE, which is an Egyptian victory stele erected by Pharaoh Merneptah that tells how he (and his army) defeated the Libyans, and put down uprisings in Canaanite cities, followed by a claim about the destruction of a people called “Israel”.

The Egyptian inscription describes the Israelites as a stateless group of semi-nomadic men and women inhabiting Canaan at a time when Canaan was under Egyptian rule. Pharaoh Merneptah groups them together with several Egyptian-ruled city states in Canaan that were crushed. The Hebrew’s Exodus from Egypt occurred just a generation or two before this 1208 BCE victory stele.........

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